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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Amazon oddness.

When you look at a product listing, Amazon helpfully tells you which items customers ultimately buy after looking at that item. Usually the list makes sense -- other books by the same author or about the same subject, perhaps. And then every once in a while, the results are Delphic. For example, on the page for Alan Palmer's The Baltic: A History, you see: